[Plugin: Google XML Sitemaps] Google Webmaster Tools

I’ve been using Google-Sitemap-Generator for some time now.

The most recent updates have seemed to create issues with Google Webmaster Tools sitemap section.

I had never experienced a RED X prior to the most recent versions of Google-Sitemap-Generator.

In some cases I will have to resubmit the sitemap 4 or 5 times for it to stay valid.

It’s usually the same message:

General HTTP error: 404 not found
We encountered an error while trying to access your Sitemap. Please ensure your Sitemap follows our guidelines and can be accessed at the location you provided and then resubmit.

danoconnor, dudewalker

Can you post links to your sitemaps (As you’ve given them to Google).

i have new same problem the site map work but on google webmaster tools i see the same error

We encountered an error while trying to access your Sitemap. Please ensure your Sitemap follows our guidelines and can be accessed at the location you provided and then resubmit.

i not understand

Hey – weird – one of my sites has started failing now with that same error – off to investigate …

I re-submitted and it downloaded just fine ….

i resubmit, will wait

I seem to get errors sometimes as well. I have the latest version of the plugin and wordpress. Sometimes when I check my google webmaster account, my urls go from a total of say 100 down to say 9. I check my /sitemap.xml file and what do you know, there’s only 9 URL’s. I have to manually rebuild the sitemap and then all 100 URL’s show up again in the sitemap.xml file and on google webmasters. Also, like others, sometimes my sitemap.xml file is unavailable when google tries to download it? I”m guessing that could be my server though? who knows. But the first problem seems to be with the plugin?

Forgot to mention. When the error occurs, the plugin seems to only build a sitemap with my ‘pages’ and no ‘posts’. After I manually rebuild it, all pages and posts appear.

I started two sites at same time and installed old plugin ver 3.1.2 from my hard drive in both. I upgraded plugin on one site but forgot to upgrade other. Site with the upgrade gave error mentioned above in my webmaster account but site without upgrade showed an OK tick. Reverted back to ver 3.1.2 and it now shows a tick for xml.gz.

I thinks it’s a bug in the plugin. If not…then a potential security breach caused by this plugin or another plugin affecting the plugin.

A new development. I have been checking the xml and xml.gz files and when I submit them. Somehow, the content is changing. Sometimes everything expect for the landing page “disappears”. Sometimes a line of text full causes a parsing error toward the top of the sitemap.

Again, this all began with the most recent update.

Also, is there a way to add a last modified date to not only pages but to posts? I thought I had it selected but my xml file only has a last modified date for pages.

got the same problem recently. What i did is update (if there’s an available update) the plugin and resubmit the sitemap.xml. Now its working fine. I also suggest that you must never edit some of the files in this plugin as it may cause some errors.

I’ve got a red cross which has now appeared and i think its because the actual sitemap is appearing in the sitemap.

Wouldn’t this just send google round and round.

So I’m using the google XML sitemap plugin.

https://Www.rocketpowered.co.UK/sitemap

Anyone know how to solve it.

Cheers,

James

Bump .. same problem. Google says it’s HTML

I have the following issues in webmaster tools. I get the red ex all the time and then see the following errors. I have 0 index from my sitemap and this is terrible

5
Paths don’t match
We’ve detected that you submitted your Sitemap using a URL path that includes the www prefix (for instance, https://www.example.com/sitemap.xml). However, the URLs listed inside your Sitemap don’t use the www prefix (for instance, https://example.com/myfile.htm).
URL:
https://iusethisapp.com/
Problem detected on: Sep 22, 2010
11
Paths don’t match
We’ve detected that you submitted your Sitemap using a URL path that includes the www prefix (for instance, https://www.example.com/sitemap.xml). However, the URLs listed inside your Sitemap don’t use the www prefix (for instance, https://example.com/myfile.htm).
URL:
https://iusethisapp.com/apple/carbuzz/
Problem detected on: Sep 22, 2010
17
Paths don’t match
We’ve detected that you submitted your Sitemap using a URL path that includes the www prefix (for instance, https://www.example.com/sitemap.xml). However, the URLs listed inside your Sitemap don’t use the www prefix (for instance, https://example.com/myfile.htm).
URL:
https://iusethisapp.com/apple/expendables-game/
Problem detected on: Sep 22, 2010
23
Paths don’t match
We’ve detected that you submitted your Sitemap using a URL path that includes the www prefix (for instance, https://www.example.com/sitemap.xml). However, the URLs listed inside your Sitemap don’t use the www prefix (for instance, https://example.com/myfile.htm).
URL:
https://iusethisapp.com/contact/
Problem detected on: Sep 22, 2010
29
Paths don’t match
We’ve detected that you submitted your Sitemap using a URL path that includes the www prefix (for instance, https://www.example.com/sitemap.xml). However, the URLs listed inside your Sitemap don’t use the www prefix (for instance, https://example.com/myfile.htm).
URL:
https://iusethisapp.com/tipstricks/assign-ringtones-contacts-iphone/
Problem detected on: Sep 22, 2010
35
Paths don’t match
We’ve detected that you submitted your Sitemap using a URL path that includes the www prefix (for instance, https://www.example.com/sitemap.xml). However, the URLs listed inside your Sitemap don’t use the www prefix (for instance, https://example.com/myfile.htm).
URL:
https://iusethisapp.com/apple/skygrid/
Problem detected on: Sep 22, 2010
41
Paths don’t match
We’ve detected that you submitted your Sitemap using a URL path that includes the www prefix (for instance, https://www.example.com/sitemap.xml). However, the URLs listed inside your Sitemap don’t use the www prefix (for instance, https://example.com/myfile.htm).
URL:
https://iusethisapp.com/news/
Problem detected on: Sep 22, 2010
47
Paths don’t match
We’ve detected that you submitted your Sitemap using a URL path that includes the www prefix (for instance, https://www.example.com/sitemap.xml). However, the URLs listed inside your Sitemap don’t use the www prefix (for instance, https://example.com/myfile.htm).
URL:
https://iusethisapp.com/apple/releasedates/
Problem detected on: Sep 22, 2010
53
Paths don’t match
We’ve detected that you submitted your Sitemap using a URL path that includes the www prefix (for instance, https://www.example.com/sitemap.xml). However, the URLs listed inside your Sitemap don’t use the www prefix (for instance, https://example.com/myfile.htm).
URL:
https://iusethisapp.com/apple/soundhound/
Problem detected on: Sep 22, 2010
59
Paths don’t match
We’ve detected that you submitted your Sitemap using a URL path that includes the www prefix (for instance, https://www.example.com/sitemap.xml). However, the URLs listed inside your Sitemap don’t use the www prefix (for instance, https://example.com/myfile.htm).
URL:
https://iusethisapp.com/apple/soundsscary/
Problem detected on: Sep 22, 2010
65
Paths don’t match
We’ve detected that you submitted your Sitemap using a URL path that includes the www prefix (for instance, https://www.example.com/sitemap.xml). However, the URLs listed inside your Sitemap don’t use the www prefix (for instance, https://example.com/myfile.htm).
URL:
https://iusethisapp.com/apple/math-tables-karaoke/
Problem detected on: Sep 22, 2010
71
Paths don’t match
We’ve detected that you submitted your Sitemap using a URL path that includes the www prefix (for instance, https://www.example.com/sitemap.xml). However, the URLs listed inside your Sitemap don’t use the www prefix (for instance, https://example.com/myfile.htm).
URL:
https://iusethisapp.com/apple/lightbulb-led-flashlight/
Problem detected on: Sep 22, 2010
77
Paths don’t match
We’ve detected that you submitted your Sitemap using a URL path that includes the www prefix (for instance, https://www.example.com/sitemap.xml). However, the URLs listed inside your Sitemap don’t use the www prefix (for instance, https://example.com/myfile.htm).
URL:
https://iusethisapp.com/apple/crimson-gem-saga/
Problem detected on: Sep 22, 2010
83
Paths don’t match
We’ve detected that you submitted your Sitemap using a URL path that includes the www prefix (for instance, https://www.example.com/sitemap.xml). However, the URLs listed inside your Sitemap don’t use the www prefix (for instance, https://example.com/myfile.htm).
URL:
https://iusethisapp.com/apple/camera-genius/
Problem detected on: Sep 22, 2010
89
Paths don’t match
We’ve detected that you submitted your Sitemap using a URL path that includes the www prefix (for instance, https://www.example.com/sitemap.xml). However, the URLs listed inside your Sitemap don’t use the www prefix (for instance, https://example.com/myfile.htm).
URL:
https://iusethisapp.com/apple/icademy/
Problem detected on: Sep 22, 2010
95
Paths don’t match
We’ve detected that you submitted your Sitemap using a URL path that includes the www prefix (for instance, https://www.example.com/sitemap.xml). However, the URLs listed inside your Sitemap don’t use the www prefix (for instance, https://example.com/myfile.htm).
URL:
https://iusethisapp.com/apple/god-strike/
Problem detected on: Sep 22, 2010
101
Paths don’t match
We’ve detected that you submitted your Sitemap using a URL path that includes the www prefix (for instance, https://www.example.com/sitemap.xml). However, the URLs listed inside your Sitemap don’t use the www prefix (for instance, https://example.com/myfile.htm).
URL:
https://iusethisapp.com/apple/dub-magazine/
Problem detected on: Sep 22, 2010
107
Paths don’t match
We’ve detected that you submitted your Sitemap using a URL path that includes the www prefix (for instance, https://www.example.com/sitemap.xml). However, the URLs listed inside your Sitemap don’t use the www prefix (for instance, https://example.com/myfile.htm).
URL:
https://iusethisapp.com/apple/abercrombie-fitch/
Problem detected on: Sep 22, 2010
113
Paths don’t match
We’ve detected that you submitted your Sitemap using a URL path that includes the www prefix (for instance, https://www.example.com/sitemap.xml). However, the URLs listed inside your Sitemap don’t use the www prefix (for instance, https://example.com/myfile.htm).
URL:
https://iusethisapp.com/apple/worldcard-contacts/
Problem detected on: Sep 22, 2010
119
Paths don’t match
We’ve detected that you submitted your Sitemap using a URL path that includes the www prefix (for instance, https://www.example.com/sitemap.xml). However, the URLs listed inside your Sitemap don’t use the www prefix (for instance, https://example.com/myfile.htm).
URL:
https://iusethisapp.com/tipstricks/tips-and-tricks-for-your-google-android/
Problem detected on: Sep 22, 2010
125
Paths don’t match
We’ve detected that you submitted your Sitemap using a URL path that includes the www prefix (for instance, https://www.example.com/sitemap.xml). However, the URLs listed inside your Sitemap don’t use the www prefix (for instance, https://example.com/myfile.htm).
URL:
https://iusethisapp.com/apple/worldcard-mobile/
Problem detected on: Sep 22, 2010
131
Paths don’t match
We’ve detected that you submitted your Sitemap using a URL path that includes the www prefix (for instance, https://www.example.com/sitemap.xml). However, the URLs listed inside your Sitemap don’t use the www prefix (for instance, https://example.com/myfile.htm).
URL:
https://iusethisapp.com/apple/facetag/
Problem detected on: Sep 22, 2010
137
Paths don’t match
We’ve detected that you submitted your Sitemap using a URL path that includes the www prefix (for instance, https://www.example.com/sitemap.xml). However, the URLs listed inside your Sitemap don’t use the www prefix (for instance, https://example.com/myfile.htm).
URL:
https://iusethisapp.com/apple/chef/
Problem detected on: Sep 22, 2010
143
Paths don’t match
We’ve detected that you submitted your Sitemap using a URL path that includes the www prefix (for instance, https://www.example.com/sitemap.xml). However, the URLs listed inside your Sitemap don’t use the www prefix (for instance, https://example.com/myfile.htm).
URL:
https://iusethisapp.com/apple/gogoworkers/
Problem detected on: Sep 22, 2010
149
Paths don’t match
We’ve detected that you submitted your Sitemap using a URL path that includes the www prefix (for instance, https://www.example.com/sitemap.xml). However, the URLs listed inside your Sitemap don’t use the www prefix (for instance, https://example.com/myfile.htm).